After the American Civil War in 1865 the United States entered a period called the Era of Reconstruction. The Civil War left the South in shambles‚ economically‚ infrastructurally‚ and socially. Therefore‚ the responsibility of repairing the South fell on the United States government. The physical damage of the war was the first to be addressed. The government was not only repairing physical damage‚ but economic damage‚ too. The Civil War destroyed the South’s economy‚ with many plantations and farms
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than slaves‚ though they had recently been freed. The Southerners still felt as if they weren’t being treated fairly. The country was divided While it was a start on their long journey for equality‚ many people wanted to speed it up. People of all races and genders decided it was well past time to revolutionize the United States to become a united and equal place for everyone both socially
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Boom! The sounds of cannons going off. Men yelling in fear and excitement. The thought of war is a strong feeling. War can be exciting for some or horrible for others. War to me is interesting to learn about because these men took their lives to save ours. Gettysburg General Lee planned to assemble his army in the town of Gettysburg which is 35 miles southwest of Harrisburg‚ Pennsylvania. When he got there he found out that the union forces had already arrived the previous day. Confederate
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Religion’s Impact on Slaves and their Generations How grave it is for one human being to devise or seek ways to conquer another and then force them into labor that is not for their benefit. Such was the case when African Americans were forcefully bought to America to be slaves. History has shed a great deal of light on the cruelties that they faced as slaves. As much as we try to organize history and understand what they actually went through‚ we will never understand the totality of their broken
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said “I will not say then that i am not‚ nor have ever been.‚ in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the whites and black races”. Continuing on that‚ Lincoln voiced his opinion that blacks should not have the right to vote‚ serve on juries‚ be in government‚ or marry into a white family. A true abolitionist knew how to free the slaves‚ however Lincoln did not have an idea about what the government should do. He thought that the way to solve slavery was to send the
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believe that Reconstruction did not successfully solve the problems of slavery and civil war because the first amendment was violated for African Americans and they were also not allowed to intermarry. In section 2 of Black Codes it states‚” Any freeman‚ free negro...seditious speeches (speaking against government)...may be imprisoned.” This shows that African Americans were not allowed the freedom of speech stated in the first amendment. This proves that the reconstruction did not solve the problems
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The American Civil War Catalog of Microform (Research Collections‚ Serials‚ and Dissertations) http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/collections/rc-search.shtml umisalesinfo@proquest.com 800.521.0600 ext. 2793 or 734.761.4700 ext. 2793 USC003-03 updated May 2010 Table of Contents About This Catalog ............................................................................................... 3 The Advantages of Microform ........................................................
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To what extent did Alexander 3 react to the reforms of Alexander 2? The term "reaction" refers to a backward change and the term "reform" means to overhul the situation and change it‚ most of the time for the better. Alexander II also known as the liberator‚ was the Emperor of Russia from 1855 to 1881. He was responsible for reforms of the legal system‚ local goverment‚ armed forces and the emancipation of the serfs‚ which was the the most important reform in 1861. When Alexander the Liberator
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1865‚ the broken Americans had just finished fighting the Civil War. The North had won over the South in the Civil War. Civil War was fought for slavery to end in the South. The rest of the country had to reconnect as one unified government. This is called Reconstruction. While South had a few problems which were that they had to rebuild most of the south ‚ they had to free the salves and didn’t know what to do with them ‚ and they didn’t have any money to rebuild. The south had slaves who worked in
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In the early 1860s America faced the bloodiest war in its history‚ known as the American Civil War. The country was broken up by a drastic sectional divide between the North and South‚ which would eventually end in greater conflict than any yet seen on American soil. While many factors were important contributions to the cause of the war‚ there is ongoing dispute on what the most significant cause was. The North and South had many conflicting fundamental ideas such as Northern industrialism versus
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